Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Tech policy expert Simon McDougall has joined ZoomInfo as our new chief compliance officer, overseeing our privacy and compliance functions. At the ICO, he established new technology and innovation policy, directed work in areas such as artificial intelligence, adtech, and competition, and led ICO’s response to data usage in the U.K.

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Meeting Policies Scale Data 130

SBI Growth

JULY 8, 2013

Social selling addresses the increasing community of buyers that leverage social media. However, company policies against social media are hampering many a sales team. I’ll explain the first component, Policy. I even provide a sample Social Media Policy for Sales. Policy – It all starts here. The Policy Problem.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Even an insurance policy is risky – if nothing bad happens, the premiums are money down the drain. For you, the salesperson, risks like these raise a question: What do I tell my buyer about them? Fortunately, there is, and a study on buyer behavior and risk disclosure reveals it. They’re not hiding anything,” buyers thought.

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Buyer Study Insurance Insurance 59

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the last blog in this series , I drew an analogy between the Gotthard Base Tunnel (the longest tunnel in the world) and the seller-buyer relationship. This is where the buyer-seller journey really begins, and it’s one taken together. This is where the buyer-seller journey really begins, and it’s one taken together.

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Buyer Fashion CRM Retail 53

Mereo

MAY 4, 2023

Sellers and buyers alike can fall prey to emotions over reason when considering dollar signs associated with a solution. And it is a challenging concept: What is the buyer willing to invest for the target outcome this solution delivers? What should the value this solution provides cost a buyer? What is it all worth?

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Lead Rank Policies Workbooks Margin 50

Nutshell

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But what should a seller do after securing a new buyer? Customer retention is also specifically important to sales reps as some organizations have instituted commission claw-back policies for customers who churn within a specific time frame. Understanding your customers will also help you upsell new or related products to buyers.

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Highspot

JUNE 17, 2022

The buying process is evolving and becoming more complex – buyers are more educated and, according to Gartner, only spend 5% of their time actually engaging with their sales rep. As a result, every interaction that your reps have with their buyers needs to provide value and further the purchase process.

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Government Policies Buyer Resources 52

SBI Growth

JUNE 11, 2013

Why would buyers purchase through distributors when the same thing can be bought from Amazon for less with 1 click? Who can beat the 365 day return policy blasted on their home page? In addition, a 365 day return policy lessens any purchase decision concerns. They are enhancing the way buyers buy. Now they own the market.

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B2C Trends B2B Distribution 317

Zoominfo

MAY 22, 2020

Salesforce surveyed more than 6,700 consumers and business buyers worldwide. Overwhelming majorities are willing to share relevant personal information (or in the case of business buyers, professional information) in exchange for perks like personalized offers, personalized shopping experiences, and consistent omni-channel interactions.”

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Data Policies SalesForce Consumer 113

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

These businesses offer a customer experience that connects with buyers, whether that is web conferencing software, TV streaming services, or home cleaning products. Thriving companies in 2020 shared a common trait: a product customers want that is simple to use and easy to access.

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Retention Loyalty Customer B2C 219

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2024

But in all seriousness, difficult prospects are a fact of sales life, and dealing with a difficult buyer who makes a sale harder than it needs to will always suck — and from time to time, you're bound to deal with an especially difficult buyer who makes a sale especially harder than it needs to be, and that experience will especially suck.

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MTD Sales Training

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I covered over some of the following information, which got him thinking: Without a robust hiring policy, it’s possible that your choice of salesperson could come back and bite you hard. It can cause some buyers to lose faith in you. These should include: A robust recruitment policy. Privacy Policy. He hadn’t.

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Hiring Policies Ideal Customer Profile Salary 175

MTD Sales Training

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In order of importance your buyers will take action more on: PAIN. You’ll want to uncover the pain, the fears and the pleasures from your buyers. If the need for the commission and sale is greater than your desire to help the buyer then this will show. Sometimes, your buyers may not be open to what you are asking.

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Consultative Selling Comparison Policies Commission 203

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Further, SiriusDecisions’ buyer surveys continuously show that C-level executives make their purchase decisions initially based on their previous company experiences, followed by the influence of customer references, the relationship with the salesperson, the perception of the brand, and then what peers say.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Policies Promotion 248

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 30, 2017

Most buyers feel like salespeople bring little or no value to the purchase decision. It’s not the buyer’s responsibility to convey information clearly enough so the salesperson has a thorough understanding. It helps to build a thorough understanding of the internal politics, policies and business processes.

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Construction Policies Buyer Influencer 168

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Along the way, our sales rep dealt with obstacles such as dozens of demos, a complicated request for proposal from the buyer, and one call with 67 people on it. There are also compliance and corporate issues that often don’t affect smaller firms, such as diversity policies for vendors and procurement requirements.

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Enterprise Enterprise Decision Maker Churn 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The problem, however, is that making this commitment has become a high-stakes challenge because today’s buying decisions represent more risk to the buyer for three reasons: Current economic indicators portend difficult times ahead. The buyer fears loss of reputation among the stakeholders if the solution fails. Address Risk Directly.

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Influencer Journal Lead Rank Decision Maker 262

SalesProInsider

JUNE 25, 2020

I’m sharing practical and actionable strategies for making your virtual sales conversations productive for you…and your buyer. These are actions you have control over, not your technology or your company policies. The next several videos focus on the actual conversation with your buyer. Conversations Not Sales Meetings.

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Conversion Strategy Face-to-face B2C 118

DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 19, 2018

Buyer personas. Let’s take our email services provider company, Atmail , as an example: We have an internal best-practice policy that whenever our sales representatives hear common questions or themes from our customers or prospects, they feed these to our marketing team via intranet entries and weekly opportunity calls.

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Buyer Persona Marketing Scale Collateral 214

BuzzBoard

JANUARY 12, 2024

These deep insights enable them to craft personalized campaigns that engage customers on a personal level, fostering a stronger connection between the buyers and the sellers. Solutions involve transparent data usage policies and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations. Navigating the Challenges 1.

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Maximizer Opportunity Marketing Policies 52

Highspot

JUNE 1, 2022

Highspot’s Strategic Enablement Framework and natively-built sales enablement platform are uniquely designed to help revenue teams navigate these changes and effectively engage buyers virtually, in-person or both. Equip reps and buyers with the resources they need. Adapt strategy in real-time to drive better business results.

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Revenue Scale Government Sales Enablement 98

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Looking for a buyer and conducting negotiations was turning into its own full-time job, and she knew she’d potentially have to wait a while for another opportunity to come along. Honesty is the Best Policy In the eighth and final episode of the PBD season, Ken Hicks, dealer principal of Toyota of Mt. Castro’s patience paid off.

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Hiring Face-to-face Scale SalesForce 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Basically, the C-suite is made up of the people who keep the company’s strategies and operations aligned with their mission and established policies. SNAP—a B2B sales framework aimed at selling to the modern buyer—is a loose acronym explained below: S– Keep it simple. Today’s buyers are overwhelmed with similar products and services.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

No B2B buyer wants to hear that from a vendor when they place an order the old-fashioned way, by phone. The best way to prevent this undercutting and resolve disputes is through a minimum advertised price (MAP) policy, under which channel partners agree not to sell below the MAP for any product. Author: Sean Parnell “Wait?—?let

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Outsourcing Services Channels B2B Incentives 156

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’re excited to extend the capabilities of the Modern Revenue Workspace to even more European-based sellers so they too can be loved by the buyers they serve. In support of the launch of our European region, we evaluated the data storage policies of third parties that we use. You can learn more about Salesloft and GDPR here.

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Data Policies Webinar Metrics Enterprise 59

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 16, 2020

ZoomInfo analyzed data on its platform that measured buyer intent signals for the topics of COVID-19 screening, COVID-19 testing, and COVID-19 reopening strategies. In that sense, screening would be similar to other policies governing entry into an office, such as issuing door key cards to employees.

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Intent Signal Face-to-face Buyer Intent Insurance 162

Allego

AUGUST 4, 2022

When the pandemic hit in 2020, the financial services firm realized how powerful video is for maintaining relationships with advisors and buyers. Through video messages, salespeople remained a part of their buyers’ worlds while competitors were left doing traditional email and phone calls. That’s a huge, huge increase.

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Video Hiring Face-to-face Penetration 118

The Pipeline

JANUARY 25, 2016

Start of the year is when you see a lot of policy changes, changes in fees, service levels etc. Having had to face new fees and policies, I have come to observe that there is a missing element in how sales people, and I would argue all who interface with clients in any way, deal with change.

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Policies Face-to-face Margin Objections 120

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

If you transport clients to properties, you’ll need a policy that covers liability and injury risks to those in your vehicle as you drive for work purposes. Make sure your photos show the property in its best light to entice potential buyers to see more. Don’t neglect to improve the property photos you post online.

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Real Estate Insurance Insurance Strategy 98

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Sellers are taught to ask probing questions, trying to discover what the opportunities can be uncovered, where the “pain” may be that will allow us to present “the solution”, win hearts and minds of buyer, win the sale, and win the day. You can’t change the buyer but you can very much change your approach!

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ACT Ideal Customer Profile Policies Buyer 253

Lead411

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Authentication Protocols: Implement email authentication protocols, such as DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) and SPF (Sender Policy Framework), to verify the authenticity of your emails. read more 8 Types of Bombora B2B Buyer Intent Signals? In this blog. They track online behavior and engagement to identify when.

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Google Intent Signal Buyer Intent Segment 52

Pipeliner

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In a company, there are many individual processes, and they’re all centered around the buyer. This is because market conditions change, buyers change, and technology often forces us to change. This seeming paradox points to both the problem and the solution for how professional corporate policy needs to be designed. In Business.

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Sales Enablement Tourism Policies Airlines 74

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As digital channels have improved and buyers’ preferences have changed, sales organizations have adopted hybrid models: where more teams are selling both in-person and remotely to meet buyers’ needs. Customer Empathy in Communications and Policies Build Trust. Your customer. To Close Things Out….

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Hubspot Lead Rank Opportunity Lead Scoring 125

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

That same user will not be able to purchase because of corporate policy on shadow I.T ( i.e Seller / user ( champion ) relationship is key: this will determine whether or not you can get in front of the executive / buyer and if you can close a small land / or the larger expand in the first instance.

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Enterprise Enterprise Scale Lead Rank 87

PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions require buyers and sellers alike to enter in a vast amount of confidential company data. A VDR simplifies the due diligence process, as potential buyers have a centralized, online hub to assess financial, legal, and operational data to uncover risks that could impact the success of the M&A transaction.

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Data How To Government Buyer 52

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Many times, vendors advertise a low cost per record to bait buyers. Unbeknownst to the buyer, this will only cover the “basic” package. Understand the vendor’s customer service policies. How to Get More from Your B2B Data. Determine what services your price includes. Be sure you fully understand what you’re paying for.

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B2B Data Vendor Discount 154

Nutshell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Aside from compelling copies and an intuitive web design, knowing your buyer personas can help optimize your lead forms. Earn your prospects’ trust by including your privacy policy In the U.S. and other markets, businesses must provide a link to their privacy policy when collecting personal information.

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